Iris Hanika
German writer (born 1962)
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Iris Hanika (born 1962) is a German writer.[1] She was born in Würzburg, grew up in Bad Königshofen and has lived in Berlin since 1979, where she studied Universal and Comparative Literature at the FU Berlin.[2][3][4] She was a regular contributor to German periodicals like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (freelancer of the Berliner Seiten) and Merkur (2000–2008: column Chronicles). Hanika won the LiteraTour Nord prize and the EU Prize for Literature for her novel Das Eigentliche (The Bottom Line). In 2020, she was awarded the Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis for her novel Echos Kammern. In 2021, she won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize.[5] Hanika wrote previously mainly short non-fictional texts, later novels, including two books on psychoanalysis.[6]

Awards
- 2006 Hans Fallada Prize[7]
- 2010 European Union Prize for Literature for Das Eigentliche[7]
- 2011 Preis der LiteraTour Nord for Das Eigentliche[7]
- 2017/2018 Villa Massimo[6]
- 2020 Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis for Echos Kammern[7]
- 2021 Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Echos Kammern[7]
Works
- Hanika, Iris (2020). Echos Kammern : Roman (in German). Graz: Literaturverlag Droschl. ISBN 978-3-99059-056-0. OCLC 1193293248.[8][9][10]
- —— (2015). Wie der Müll geordnet wird : Roman (in German). Graz: Literaturverl. Droschl. ISBN 978-3-85420-962-1. OCLC 904438449.[11]
- —— (2012). Tanzen auf Beton : Weiterer Bericht von der unendlichen Analyse (in German). Graz: Droschl, M. ISBN 978-3-85420-799-3. OCLC 802668445.[12][13]
- ——; Hennersdorf, Sonja (2010). Das Eigentliche : Roman (in German). Graz. ISBN 978-3-85420-764-1. OCLC 587764696.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[14] - —— (2008). Treffen sich zwei : Roman (in German). Graz: Droschl. ISBN 978-3-85420-737-5. OCLC 225260310.
- Hanika, Iris (2007). Vor dem Gericht (in German). Berlin. ISBN 978-3-937737-82-9. OCLC 198833649.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ——; Seifert, Edith (2006). Die Wette auf das Unbewusste, oder, Was Sie schon immer über Psychoanalyse wissen wollten (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-12457-9. OCLC 70132355.
- —— (2005). Musik für Flughäfen : kurze Texte (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 978-3-518-12404-8. OCLC 62206120.
- —— (2003). Das Loch im Brot : Chronik (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN 3-518-12438-2. OCLC 52901445.
- —— (1992). Katharina, oder, Die Existenzverpflichtung : Erzählung (in German). Berlin: Fannei & Walz. ISBN 3-927574-14-7. OCLC 27727247.